The Personal Interaction Panel – a Two‐Handed Interface for Augmented Reality

Abstract

This paper describes the introduction of a new interaction

The personal cockpit

“…Wearable sensor technologies are prone to noise and may not be capable of precise tracking with a high level of reliability in all environments. Furthermore, users may have difficulty performing very precise gestures without a haptic surface for feedback [199]. One further drawback of hand input is fatigue, likely to result from large motions over an extended duration without an appropriate resting surface.…”

“…Stereoscopic displays (i.e. Caves, some HWDs) often use intangible, virtual surfaces, although information spaces are sometimes intentionally set to coincide with physical surfaces [199]. In free space, researchers have found that indirect input is faster, less fatiguing and more stable [6,94,205] than direct input.…”

“…For instance, it is highly intuitive to select an object with a pointing gesture, or to move and rotate an object using direct manipulation. However, these natural techniques are prone to fatigue from excessive arm motions [58,91] and limited precision due to the absence of haptic feedback [199].…”

“…However, these techniques often rely on external tracking systems [30,165], bulky input devices [29] or haptic surfaces [199]. In contrast, a practical interface for interaction with SAIs must consider new requirements not always relevant in VR labs.…”

“…Our work aims to supplement these existing techniques with input from a ring device to provide a sense of naturalism while countering the drawbacks of direct interaction with virtual objects, such as low precision [124,199] and fatigue [91,94].…”